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hiplife

hiplife noun: a Ghanaian style of music that fuses highlife and hip-hop.

Noun

hiplife (uncountable)

  1. A Ghanaian style of music that fuses highlife and hip-hop.
    • Up the block at Nananom, a tiny music and sundries store, all the hiplife CDs were sold out.2015 August 6, Liz Robbins, “Hiplife, a Sound Imported From Ghana, Arrives on a New York Stage”, in New York Times

Origin of hiplife

Blend of hip-hop + highlife.

Questions about hiplife

What does hiplife mean?
Hiplife means a Ghanaian style of music that fuses highlife and hip-hop.
What part of speech is hiplife?
Hiplife is a noun.

Words near hiplife in the dictionary

  1. hiplength
  2. hipless
  3. hiplessness
  4. hiplet
  5. hiplets
  6. hiplife
  7. hiplike
  8. hipline
  9. hiplines
  10. hiply
  11. hipness

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